Monday, May 30, 2022

Review: How the Earth Works

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 How the Earth Works is a Great Courses audio/video series on geology. I never took a geology class in college and thought it would be inte...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Review: Powerhouse

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  Powerhouse is Steve LeVine's book about the race to create NMC 2.0 batteries . It revolves around Argonne National Laboratories, Envi...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Review: Driven - The Race to Create the Autonomous Car

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  Driven is an account of the rise of the autonomous vehicle industry. It traces the rise of the industry from the initial DARPA Grand Chall...
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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Review: The Handmaid's Tale Graphic Novel

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 I kept bouncing off The Handmaid's Tale, so I finally resorted to the graphic novel edition to see if I could finally actually make it...
Monday, May 16, 2022

Review: Q-Squared

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 I picked up Q-Squared because I had good memories of Peter David's writing, even though I'm not actually a fan of Star Trek the ne...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Review: Specialized Recon 1.0 MTB Shoes

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 After just 5 years of use my Pearl Izumi cycling shoes died from the straps falling apart. There was a mild sale on the Specialized Recon 1...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Review: Hydroflask 32oz Lightweight Wide Mouth Trail Series

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 Aurora gave me an insulated water bottle that was impressively handy during the Antigua trip. It was perfect, except that it didn't qui...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Spain 2022: Girona to San Francisco

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 We got up early, ate breakfast, packed everything into the car, and drove out past the garage and bollard before returning the keys back in...
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Monday, May 09, 2022

Review: Kindle Paperwhite Kids

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 My 4 year old Kindle's battery was dying, meaning that I had to recharge the kindle every time I finished the book. I could probably ge...
Friday, May 06, 2022

Spain 2022: April 16th - Olot Hiking

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\ We were starting to wake up on a Spanish schedule. 8am instead of 6am, but today we had to take our proctor'd COVID19 tests. Arturo re...
Thursday, May 05, 2022

Review: A World Without Email

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 I wasn't very impressed by Deep Work , so I skipped a few Cal Newport books but checked out A World Without Email when I heard his inte...
Wednesday, May 04, 2022

Spain 2022: April 15th, Petradella, Cala Pedrosa

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  We woke up late, leaving the old town only around 9:30am, but it was an easy drive to Peratallada, a classic old town with a watch tower, ...
Tuesday, May 03, 2022

Spain 2022: April 14th - Girona Food Tour and City Wall Walk

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 Boen had been coughing since we got to Barcelona, when I realized that I'd forgotten to pack his asthma inhalers. So when the morning r...
Monday, May 02, 2022

Review: Packing for Mars

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 I was inspired to read Packing for Mars while auditing How Science Shapes Science Fiction . Written in 2011, it's still reasonably up ...
Saturday, April 30, 2022

Spain 2022: Barcelona, Cadaques, and Girona

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 For Spring break, 2022, we spent a week in Spain. It was too short a trip to bring bikes, so we did a bunch of walking in Barcelona, Cadaqu...
Friday, April 29, 2022

Spain 2022: April 13th Cadaques to Girona

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  The hotel breakfast was scrumptious, filling, and generous, and the kids were finally done with jet lag, sleeping until 7:30am. After brea...
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Thursday, April 28, 2022

Review: How Science Shapes Science Fiction

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 How Science Shapes Science Fiction is a great courses program about how science is used and abused in science fiction. Professor Charles A...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Spain 2022: April 12th Barcelona to Cadaques

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 I was in my nightmare: the car was stuck on the slight upslope from the garage, and kept stalling out whenever I tried to put it in gear. N...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Spain 2022: April 11th - Barcelona, Mont Junc and the Beach

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  Of course we weren't granted an exception by the jet-lag gods, and all woke up at 2am, took more melatonin and tried to sleep more fat...
Monday, April 25, 2022

Review: The Wanderings of Odysseus

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 After reading Black Ships Before Troy, I decided I liked it enough to checkout The Wanderings of Odysseus from the library. This retelling...